McCarney taught philosophy at South Bank University. He wrote three books: The Real World of Ideology (1980); Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (1990); Hegel on History (2000).
At the time of his death his main intellectual interest was the Hegel-Marx relationship. He believed that although a very great deal has been written on this subject we are still far from having any secure understanding of it and it represents a most fertile field for inquiry.
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